Senecio eboracensis R.J.Abbott & A.J.Lowe (2003:377)

York groundsel, York radiate groundsel

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Of recent hybrid origin (Lowe & Abbott, 2000, 2003).

Conservation Status

Extinct in the wild (Barkham, 2023)

Last record: 1991 (Barkham, 2023) (wild); 2000 (Le Roux et al., 2019)

Distribution

Great Britain

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Lowe, A. J. and Abbott, R. J. (2003). A new British species, Senecio eboracensis (Asteraceae), another hybrid derivative of S. vulgaris L. and S. squalidus L. Watsonia 24(3): 375-388.

Other references:

Abbott, Richard J. and Lowe, Andrew J. (2004). Origins, establishment and evolution of new polyploid species: Senecio cambrensis and S. eboracensis in the British Isles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 82(4): 467-474. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00333.x

Barkham, Patrick. (2023, 27 May). York groundsel blooms again in Britain’s first-ever de-extinction event. The Guardian (online). Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/27/york-groundsel-bloom-again-britain-first-ever-de-extinction-event-natural-england [Accessed on 28 January 2024]

Le Roux, Johannes J., Hui, C., Castillo, M. L., Iriondo, J. M., Keet, J.-H., Khapugin, A. A., Médail, F., Rejmánek, M., Theron, G. Yannelli, F. A. and Hirsch, H. (2019). Recent Anthropogenic Plant Extinctions Differ in Biodiversity Hotspots and Coldspots. Current Biology 29(17): 2912-2918.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.063

Lowe, Andrew J. and Abbott, Richard J. (2000). Routes of origin of two recently evolved hybrid taxa: Senecio vulgaris var. hibernicus and York radiate groundsel (Asteraceae). American Journal of Botany 87: 1159-1167.

Lowe, Andrew J. and Abbott, Richard J. (2004). Reproductive isolation of a new hybrid species, Senecio eboracensis Abbott & Lowe (Asteraceae). Heredity 92(5): 386-395.

Rich, Timothy C. G. (2020). List of vascular plants endemic to Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands 2020. British & Irish Botany 2(3): 169-189. https://doi.org/10.33928/bib.2020.02.169

Roskov, Y. et al. (eds.). (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

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